Imperialism isn’t just about taking land. It’s about maintaining and imposing hegemony.

I have sad news. The distance from LA to NYC is ~1840mi by road and the fastest speed reached by a commercial train is 268mph. It would take over 10hrs to travel that distance, assuming a nonstop trip that follows the same path as the road.

When I hornypost, I don’t wait 10hrs to do something about it

Disappointing, this doesn’t sound as shit as I was expecting

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They did it right. The 169th step occurs once you finish

1. I don’t think the mod is power tripping. They used the piefed default ban length (2100-2026=74), and the mod is allowed to moderate their community as they see fit. They don’t allow aggressive neoliberal talking points. That’s their choice.
2. I’m a fan of the community, so I’m familiar with the mod’s behavior. They aren’t centrist, they were criticizing the democratic party. I don’t necessarily agree with the post, but that doesn’t make it misinformation.
3. As a mod of a few communities myself, we’re custodians of a community, not “hierarchical leaders”.
4. The principle of free association means that I can freely interact with them as long as both parties see it as mutually beneficial. If I didn’t like the mod, what they post, or their community, then I block them. If they don’t like me, what I post, or my communities, then they block me.

1. Anarcho-nihilism is a thing. Personally I find it a little bleak, I think we should have a vision to move towards.
2. So we can criticize voting itself, but not the parties that perpetuate it?

This is an anarchist community, so here’s an anarchist perspective. Voting is not and cannot be harm reduction.

The idea of a ballot being capable of reducing the harm in a system rooted in colonial domination and exploitation, white supremacy, hetero-patriarchy, and capitalism is an extraordinary exaggeration. There is no person whose lives aren’t impacted everyday by these systems of oppression, but instead of coded reformism and coercive “get out the vote” campaigns towards a “safer” form of settler colonialism, we’re asking “what is the real and tragic harm and danger associated with perpetuating colonial power and what can be done to end it?”

https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/voting-is-not-harm-reduction

Harm reduction is harmful

Voting as harm reduction does more harm than good. Accepting reforms through voting makes people settle for a partial goal; it is a concession. From this position of compromise, the state entrenches its position, and it becomes more difficult to push further, for voters fear losing their partial gains. Accepting harm reduction also divides the movement, because some will be satisfied with the crumbs, while others want it all (see the split at the ZAD). Harm reduction also assumes that the harm (the government) cannot be removed entirely, which is an argument that there can be no anarchy.

Voting is not harm reduction

For the vast majority of issues, there’s no difference between the political parties. They are all the parties of business, climate destruction, deportation, incarceration, police, surveillance, drone strikes, sacred site desecration, et cetera. By getting you to believe that there is a lesser of two evils, the state dampens your desire for abolishing it, because you are meant to believe that things will be worse if you don’t vote and support a political party. Look at the fact that the George Floyd Rebellion occurred under Trump, where liberals, and progressives, and leftists didn’t get what they want, where the harm was supposedly greater, than under Biden, where those same people lie dormant, accepting the lesser evil world as a blessed reprieve.

https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/anonymous-why-you-shouldn-t-vote#toc1

I have a canned response to those people.

“Oh, so names matter? Then the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea isn’t a brutal dictatorship?”

defends a right wing cop in an anarchist space

YDI

$5 says that the platform used AI to send the funds

That’s just sloppy spiking. Those nails should be driven in at an angle, and the heads of the nails should be removed before being driven all the way in. The hammer should be heavier to make driving the nail easier. If you have more time, you should use a drill and then drop hardened steel rods into the hole.

Source

You’re right, but I’m not good at checking those details, I was checking the background mostly. AI still tends to struggle with things outside of the image focus. If you look at the faces of the people in the background, they’re all over the place with random eye and mouth lines that don’t match anything an artist would do.

Also the random hand with a pen in the foreground that isn’t connected to anything.

This is looking like slop. Especially that top image

1. strategic voting is impossible to avoid, so it doesn’t really matter and shouldn’t be a consideration.

2. This cycle continues till eventually GOP Candidate gets elected

This is a big leap from just saying that some strategic voting will occur. I don’t think you’ve demonstrated this in your example.

3. This example also still assumes 2 parties. Part of election reform would be to destroy the barriers preventing 3rd parties from running and gaining seats through proportional representation

4. Ultimately, I want the political apparatus to be destroyed and replaced by an anarchist society. This is the best of the worst in my eyes.

I’m a fan of approval voting

This is primarily an anarchist community. If you want us to call the Democrats good, you’ll be waiting for a long time. The 9th layer of hell and the 7th layer of hell have differences, but it’s still hell.

The developer is ideologically against sales, because they believe it’s disrespectful to people who have already bought the game. Factorio has never been on sale, and will (probably) never go on sale

This is a special kind of evil